<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed; font-size: 13px;" lang="x-western">My program now works - for very short videos (up to 1 second and 2 frames duration!) I have been testing my program and thought it was almost working - until I discovered a problem. I had been testing with a video camera pointing nowhere in particular and all seemed well, but then, when I waved to the camera, I noticed that the video did not include me waving. I transferred the video to another machine and noticed that while the audio continued as expected, the video stopped after about 1 second and 2 frames. I tested with the following gst-launch but it seems to work OK. gst-launch-1.0 -e --gst-debug-level=6 v4l2src norm=PAL ! 'video/x-raw,format=(string)I420,width=320,height=240,framerate=(fraction)25/1' ! queue ! mux. alsasrc ! audioconvert ! 'audio/x-raw,rate=44100,channels=2' ! queue ! mux. avimux name=mux ! filesink location=test.avi The program is intended to be functionally the same - the only 'embellishment' is that this test version is set to stop recording after 1 minute (the live version will have a 40 minute cutoff). The program also supports Ctrl-C to stop recording. I have (I hope) attached a zip file of the debug output (the middle 56 seconds have been removed). I can see that the debug shows <ul> <li>at 0:00:00.343548749, the pipeline is 'Playing' - so what went before is configuration and establishment.</li> <li>it appears to be reporting that both pads have data, repeatedly throughout the session</li> <li>there is activity after 1 minute when the EOS gets sent</li> </ul> but I have not noticed anything reporting problems after 1 second when the video content stops recording. I have also tested using gst_parse_launch (instead of constructing the pipeline 'by hand') and I get the same problem with the video stopping after a second. Can anyone see what might be going wrong? Ian #include <gst/gst.h> #include <glib.h> #include <signal.h> #include <string.h> static GstElement *pipeline; gulong timeout_id; static gboolean bus_call (GstBus *bus, GstMessage *msg, gpointer data) { GMainLoop *loop = (GMainLoop *) data; switch (GST_MESSAGE_TYPE (msg)) { case GST_MESSAGE_EOS: g_print ("End of stream\n"); g_main_loop_quit (loop); break; case GST_MESSAGE_ERROR: { gchar *debug; GError *error; gst_message_parse_error (msg, &error, &debug); g_free (debug); g_printerr ("Error: %s\n", error->message); g_error_free (error); g_main_loop_quit (loop); break; } case GST_MESSAGE_APPLICATION:{ const GstStructure *s; s = gst_message_get_structure (msg); if (gst_structure_has_name (s, "GstLaunchInterrupt")) { /* this application message is posted when we caught an interrupt and * we need to stop the pipeline. */ g_print ("Interrupt: Stopping pipeline ...\n"); gst_element_send_event (pipeline, gst_event_new_eos ()); } break; } default: break; } return TRUE; } static void sigint_restore (void) { struct sigaction action; memset (&action, 0, sizeof (action)); action.sa_handler = SIG_DFL; sigaction (SIGINT, &action, NULL); } static void sigint_handler_sighandler (int signum) { g_print ("Caught interrupt -- "); gst_element_send_event (pipeline, gst_event_new_eos ()); sigint_restore (); } static void sigint_setup (void) { struct sigaction action; memset (&action, 0, sizeof (action)); action.sa_handler = sigint_handler_sighandler; sigaction (SIGINT, &action, NULL); } /* is called every 40 minutes. * I will send an EOS to the pipeline. */ static gboolean times_up (GstElement * pipeline) { gst_element_send_event (pipeline, gst_event_new_eos ()); sigint_restore (); return FALSE; } int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { GMainLoop *loop; GstElement *vsource, *vcapsfilter, *vidrate, *queue1; GstElement *asource, *aconv, *audrate, *acapsfilter, *queue2; GstElement *mux, *sink; GstBus *bus; guint bus_watch_id; GstCaps *caps; /* Initialisation */ gst_init (&argc, &argv); loop = g_main_loop_new (NULL, FALSE); /* Check input arguments */ if (argc != 2) { g_printerr ("Usage: %s <AVI filename>\n", argv[0]); return -1; } /* Create gstreamer elements */ pipeline = gst_pipeline_new ("av-recorder"); vsource = gst_element_factory_make ("v4l2src", "vid-source"); vcapsfilter = gst_element_factory_make ("capsfilter", "vid-caps"); vidrate = gst_element_factory_make ("videorate", "vidrate"); queue1 = gst_element_factory_make ("queue", "queue1"); asource = gst_element_factory_make ("alsasrc", "alsa-source"); aconv = gst_element_factory_make ("audioconvert", "audio-conv"); acapsfilter = gst_element_factory_make ("capsfilter", "audio-caps"); audrate = gst_element_factory_make ("audiorate", "audrate"); queue2 = gst_element_factory_make ("queue", "queue2"); mux = gst_element_factory_make ("avimux", "avi-mux"); sink = gst_element_factory_make ("filesink", "file-output"); if (!pipeline || !vsource || !vcapsfilter || !vidrate || !queue1 || !asource || !aconv || !audrate || !acapsfilter || !queue2 || !mux || !sink) { g_printerr ("One element could not be created. Exiting.\n"); return -1; } /* Set up the pipeline */ /* we set the output filename to the sink element */ g_object_set (G_OBJECT (sink), "location", argv[1], NULL); /* we set the video capabilities on the vidcaps element */ caps = gst_caps_from_string("video/x-raw,format=(string)I420,width=320,height=240,framerate=(fraction)25/1"); g_object_set (G_OBJECT (vcapsfilter), "caps", caps, NULL); gst_caps_unref (caps); /* we set the audio capabilities on the audiocaps element */ caps = gst_caps_from_string("audio/x-raw,rate=44100,channels=2"); g_object_set (G_OBJECT (acapsfilter), "caps", caps, NULL); gst_caps_unref (caps); g_object_set (G_OBJECT (vsource), "norm", 255, NULL); /* we add a message handler */ bus = gst_pipeline_get_bus (GST_PIPELINE (pipeline)); bus_watch_id = gst_bus_add_watch (bus, bus_call, loop); gst_object_unref (bus); /* we add all elements into the pipeline */ /* vsource, vcapsfilter, vidrate, queue1, asource, aconv, acapsfilter, queue2, mux, sink */ gst_bin_add_many (GST_BIN (pipeline), vsource, vcapsfilter, queue1, /* vsource, vidrate, vcapsfilter, queue1,*/ asource, aconv, acapsfilter, queue2, /* asource, aconv, audrate, acapsfilter, queue2,*/ mux, sink, NULL); /* we link the elements together */ /* vsource -> vcapsfilter -> vidrate -> queue1 -> avimux asource -> aconv -> acapsfilter -> queue2 -> avimux mux -> sink */ gst_element_link_many (vsource, vcapsfilter, queue1, mux, NULL); /* gst_element_link_many (vsource, vcapsfilter, vidrate, queue1, mux, NULL);*/ gst_element_link_many (asource, aconv, acapsfilter, queue2, mux, NULL); /* gst_element_link_many (asource, aconv, audrate, acapsfilter, queue2, mux, NULL);*/ gst_element_link_many (mux, sink, NULL); /* Set the pipeline to "playing" state*/ g_print ("Now recording: %s\n", argv[1]); gst_element_set_state (pipeline, GST_STATE_PLAYING); sigint_setup (); /* timeout_id = g_timeout_add (40 * 60000, (GSourceFunc) times_up, pipeline); */ timeout_id = g_timeout_add (1 * 60000, (GSourceFunc) times_up, pipeline); /* Iterate */ g_print ("Recording (or not!)...\n"); g_main_loop_run (loop); /* Out of the main loop, clean up nicely */ g_print ("Returned, stopping recording\n"); gst_element_set_state (pipeline, GST_STATE_NULL); g_print ("Deleting pipeline\n"); gst_object_unref (GST_OBJECT (pipeline)); g_source_remove (bus_watch_id); g_main_loop_unref (loop); return 0; } -- Ian Davidson -- Facts used in this message may or may not reflect an underlying objective reality. 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